Gitter recently released Sidecar, a method of embedding a Gitter channel on your site with a JavaScript snippet. While it offers some customization options, I opted to use the default settings and embed it on this page (look in the bottom right corner). You can do the same on your favorite web-o-tron page with the following code:

Steve Faulkner noted that it has some accessibility issues, but tracked down the GitHub repo for Sidecar so that anyone can submit fixes. He also found a place to start to make it into a sidebar in Firefox after I lamented that I would like to see it as a browser extension. It’s unlikely I’ll do anything about it in the near future, sadly.

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